The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

blind.
collecting dog photographs is the
latest craze
Buffalo Bill earned his title by
killing 1920 buffalOes.
Bears are said to be plentiful in
the swamps OF Georgia.
Huron, Dakota, has organized a
"IIomely Mans Club"
Nebraska high license towns com.
plain Of holes-in.tho-walls."
"A Connecticut girl has gone insane
from beng kissed il the dark.
"A Name lady has refused $4,000
or her t~resses, 8 foot / inch long.
"A perfectly petrined rosebud has
been found at Valley Head, Alabama.
1t is sail there are more paperr
devoted 10 cycling than to any othes
sport.
"A rink in Harlem, New York, was
robbed of 1000 pair of roller skates re-
gently.
"A LitchGeld, Connecticut, dame of
10 has got a divorce; he left her 81
years ago.
"A fifth wheel, for use on light We
hicles, has been Invented by a Keokuk
iowa man.
Rock Rapids, Iowa, is being done
10y a missionary of the converted
gambler" kind.
"A single oyster opened the other
day by a Fair Haven Comm man con-
tanned 1913 pearls.
Among the little wants that Brook
ings, Dakota, wants strong is a lin
burger cheese factory.
Atlantic County, New Jersey is re-
ported entirely out OF debt and has
80 900 in the Treasury.
Madrid society has been warmly
discussing the question 'Can a bull
lighter be a gentleman?"
"A vineyardist in Napa Valley,
California, has committed suicide by
jumping into a cask Of wine.
-Pomatum was introduced in 1896.
1t was compounded Of the pulp Of
apples. lard and rose water.
Japan is manufacturing jackets of
paper, linen thread being introduced
to give them necessary strength.
-~Twenty-one barrels of hour are
used daily in making bread for the
1000 convicts in Sing Sing prison.
"A Georgia rooster recently killed
himself by eating 10 grains of corn,
90 peanuts and a large quantity of
dough.
Carpets should never be shaken,
as their weight incllnes them to part;
but should be laid on a rope and then
beaten at the back.
Fifty thousand tons of SCOT are
stated to have been taken from Lon
don chlmneys last year. Its value is
set at S204 ,000-as a fertilizer.
"A New York Central sleeping car
porter says he has been ON the road for
fifteen years and only two ladies ever
offered to pay him for his trouble.
The great legal phenomenon at
Jackson, Michigan, is q lawyer who
eloquently defended in court, the other
day, a man who had stolen from him
an %Gvercoat.
The absorbing question at Ashton.
Iowa, where the Town Council has re-
fused to act on the question, is whether
or not base ball playing on Sunday
shall be allowed.
-Sparrows have taken possession Of
the tall pillars that support the elevated
railways in New York, and there,
amidst the din of travel, thousands of
little sparrows are yearly ha:ened out.
In a fight between two drunken
men at Wabasha, Minnesota, one of
them had his left leg broken, and his
head nearly broken. The other was
arrested and fined S15, which he paid,
and departed.
"A lad in South Boston having
handed his teacher a note reading
Clicking don't do tins boy no good;
talk to him." provoked an inquiry that
led to the discovery that he had HIM
self written the note.
The harvest moon is the moon
near the full at harvest time in Eng.
land, or about the autumnal equinox
when the moon rises nearly at the same
hour for several days. The autumnal
equinox occurs about the 23d of Sep
TENDER.
The sutler at Fort Adams, Rhode
| Isl nd, has received orders from the
J commandant not to furnish troops with
| whisky or other strong liquor. The
| order is due to a disturbance raised by
a soldier 10 whom liquor was sold
while under arrest.
san Francisco papers complain Of
| the extent 10 which the use Of profane
and vulgar language is permitted on
the streets Of that city, and charge
that the police, instead of being cham
pions Of deceucy and good manners,
| often offend in the anne way.
"A young man In Winston county,
| Mississippi, concluded he would marry
in a oIan-new suit without paying for
It. lie went TO a merchant. obtained
tho clothes on credit, stood up in IT.,
and returned 1t the next day, claiming
that 1t did not nt him.
"A girl in Shelby, Kentucky, was
provoked by the bad play of her part
ner 1T croquet. She struck him ON the
head with a mallet, and caused a brain
fever, OF which he nearly died. She
was kept IN custody until he recovered,
and then she married him.
"A curious cause OF death Is re-
ported from Burlington, New Jersey.
The deceased was n cook on a dredging
uldCuluC. III OpCuiAB a Sdu VI hOtuu"
toes his hands were cut by the tin.
Blood poisoning and death followed.
"A most astonishing phenomenon of
the JaYanese earthquake was the split
ting Of the Papaudayang Mountain.
In a flash of time it was split into
seven parts. Where the lone noun.
tam had stood doomed up seven peaks
each some 1000 feet high.
On the Devonshire coast In Eng
land a sea grass is boiled, chopped,
mixed with a small proportion of oat-
meal, and made into bread, which
keeps from foul to eight days, and Is
much used by the poor Welsh people,
most of it being sent to Swansea.
An English ethnologist has made
an interesting discovery. Sir Samuel
Baker notes as a curious fact that the
negroes never tame elephants or wild
animals. The elephants used by the
Cartha2inians were trained by the